Recognizing rotated faces and Greebles: What properties drive the face inversion effect?

Visual Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 754-784

  Ashworth, Alan R S ^a,b   Vuong, Quoc C ^c   Rossion, Bruno ^d   Tarr, Michael J ^e  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIES; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 47249109466     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280701381741     Document Type: Article

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